John Demjanjuk, a man accused of being Nazi death camp guard during World War II, was taken from his home in Cleveland today, about to be deported to Germany to stand trial, but the courts are preventing him from being deported from the country.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay in the deportation order, willing to hear the arguments of Demjanjuk's relatives, who say he is too old and frail to travel to Germany to stand trial, and that he is being falsely accused. From an AP...Read Full Story

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John Demjanjuk (born April 3, 1920) is a retired auto worker who is suspected of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps. Though he was tried and convicted of war crimes in Israel in 1988, he was released in 1993 when judges ruled that there was a reasonable doubt as to whether Demjanjuk was the SS Guard known as "Ivan Grozny" or Ivan the...more

John Demjanjuk (born April 3, 1920) is a retired auto worker who is suspected of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps. Though he was tried and convicted of war crimes in Israel in 1988, he was released in 1993 when judges ruled that there was a reasonable doubt as to whether Demjanjuk was the SS Guard known as "Ivan Grozny" or Ivan the Terrible. He was charged again with 26,000 murders on March 11, 2009, by German authorities.